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Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Social Networks: Al-Zawahiri had a Facebook page

Ayman al ZawahiriImage via Wikipedia
It has already been erased:
Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's top deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri had appeared on Facebook, but the social networking site later removed those pages.

Less than a fortnight after Osama bin Laden came on Facebook, The Sun revealed that al-Zawahiri, who has a 16.5 million-pound price on his head, also appeared on the site.

Facebook said: "These pages have been removed."

Two more pages linked to the Taliban were also removed.

Zawahiri's page had a photo of him with a semi-automatic rifle in the background and videos included a truck bombing in Afghanistan. It could be found through a Voice of Jihad site that included film clips calling for attacks on Britain and the US, the media report said.
Hey, I'm Al-Zawahiri, don't you want to be my FB friend?
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Monday, 26 April 2010

Today is Boobquake Day!

Just to prove the stupidity of Ayatollah Sedighi's claims that "unmodest women" produce the earthquakes, a new initiative is born:
that point of view doesn’t sit well with Blag Hag blogger Jen McCreight.
The student from Indiana has launched a Facebook campaign against Mr Sedighi’s comments, asking women across the world to wear their most revealing outfits to test the cleric’s theories.
The campaign is called called Boobquake – and today is Boobquake Day.
“On Monday, April 26th I will wear the most cleavage-showing shirt I own… the one usually reserved for a night on the town,” says organiser Jennifer McCreight on the Facebook page.
“I encourage other female sceptics to join me and embrace the supposed supernatural power of their breasts.
“With the power of our scandalous bodies combined, we should surely produce an earthquake.”
  A very good idea!!!
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Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Social networks: Atheists or Arab reformers terrorised by Islamists on Facebook

Image representing Facebook as depicted in Cru...Image via CrunchBase
Read at Poste de Veille:

In recent weeks, several people have told me that their Facebook page was closed or deleted from the platform. First, it was a friend of Morocco. Then, a Moroccan friend living in Boston Then, an Indian woman in England. And others have followed. 
After investigating a bit and talked to each of them, I realized that these people all had something in common: they all criticized Islam (some are atheists, other former Muslims or Reform ) and frequently published articles and humorous about religion.
Someone then informed me that a group had been created on Facebook (in Arabic) with one goal to report to moderators - and thus to close - the profiles of Arab atheists. The group, which itself seems to have disappeared, was named "Pesticide Facebook" and its purpose was "to identify the atheists, agnostics, anti-religious in the Arab world and especially in Tunisia ..." Members of this group are trying to make Facebook delete the accounts of users after they have been identified for having a bad image of Islam.
Of course, it is problematic that a group of people trying to destroy the digital identities of a specific group of users, but this is not the problem I'll discuss here. What I will talk to the strategy of Facebook to deal with such situations, and why it is so problematic. [...] [...]
Apparently, this group has been deactivated but they have created "5 more each one worse than the other", according to one of the users.
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